re: #123 Dark_Falcon

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Some background: Angola is 95% Christian, mostly Catholic and evangelical. Islam…there’s maybe a few hundred thousand Muslims in a nation of 14-16 millions. The former are mostly immigrants from West Africa. You don’t get very far in looking for stuff on the Islam ban before you hit the bad crazy of Gellar-like proportions, intermingled with Christian nationalist sentiments.

The reasoning being given for the ban is a fear of Wahhabism, but there’s a lot of textured stuff going on. Muslims are associated with illegal immigration, there’s unverified reports of “Muslims mobs” attacking Christians, There’s also the question of whether this ban fits into a larger picture of Angola as a nation in an ongoing internal conflict…I don’t know the situation well enough to speculate intelligently, but the nation has just had a shakeup to its political process, so power is even more concentrated with one party.

No-one’s going to ban Christianity…and that’s exactly why Fischer is excited.